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which is more reliable and longer lasting bluetooth/wifi card

an m.2 bluetooth wifi card or a pcie bluetooth wifi card

anyone has any relevant experience that can speak to this?
Cat Herders of Linux

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I have this one:
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Network controller: Intel Corporation Wi-Fi 6 AX200 (rev 1a)
It is a quite reliable one and, which is also important, Intel cards work under Linux without issue. Buy the one with attached antennas. Without antennas, the card would also work, but it'll be susceptible to potential overheat, and the strength of the signal will be lower.

Re: which is more reliable and longer lasting bluetooth/wifi card

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I have this one:
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Network controller: Intel Corporation Wi-Fi 6 AX200 (rev 1a)
It is a quite reliable one and, which is also important, Intel cards work under Linux without issue. Buy the one with attached antennas. Without antennas, the card would also work, but it'll be susceptible to potential overheat, and the strength of the signal will be lower.


I had bought a motherboard with wifi/bluetooth built in and it would cut out as it warmed up..  I have a hp g3 sff and it has an m.2 slot for bluetooth/wifi but then i'd have to wire in the antenna into the case which could be tricky maybe?  but those are around 20$ the pcie cards with antennas are around 30$.  Since i have seen the overheating in these little things so i had questions.

Can i use that m.2 slot for anything other than a wifi/bluetooth card?  Maybe put in an extra sata ssd?  or a second nvme?
Cat Herders of Linux

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I had bought a motherboard with wifi/bluetooth built in and it would cut out as it warmed up..
Is there any antenna shipped with the mobo? The thing is, the signal inside the computer case is weak, and thus the card pumps up its power in order to make it stronger, which causes overheat. So, antennas help a lot.

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I have a hp g3 sff and it has an m.2 slot for bluetooth/wifi but then i'd have to wire in the antenna into the case which could be tricky maybe?
My card goes with antenna wires built in. Perhaps, it would be a little bit tricky to mount these wires onto the card in the case they are not plugged in yet. But the antennas themselves are mounted onto a plank which is accordingly mounted in a PCI output slot on the back side of the computer case, so there is little trouble to install them. Some mobos, as mine, have the antenna slots on the back plank (alongside with USB slots, network and video outputs), but in order to pass through the wires there, you need to dismount almost all mobo, so this can be a little tricky, yeah. It's easier to use a default PCI plank.

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Can i use that m.2 slot for anything other than a wifi/bluetooth card?  Maybe put in an extra sata ssd?  or a second nvme?
Yes, you can. Except for the sata ssd, it is plugged into the sata slot, not into the m.2 one :-)
Refer to your mobo's documentation on how many PCI lines it has, there are some caveats on how many nvmes you can install and in which mode they will work (i.e. PCIe3 or PCIe4, for example).

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h-node  lists hardware with good opensource drivers support.
 

Re: which is more reliable and longer lasting bluetooth/wifi card

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I think i will look at the internal m.2 card a bit more and see if i can get an antenna to run inside the case.  I don't need the wifi but just want the bluetooth.  I have a cat 6 cable running to my pc.  If i can't get an antenna for inside the case i'll buy the pcie card as that is really so much easier.

Ty for talking to me about this.
Cat Herders of Linux